Ceramic art: comment and review, 1882-1977 : an anthology of writings on modern ceramic art

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Page xivOur Aero- ceramisti have an awareness of the corpus vasorum of all Oriental
porcelain, of the pothecary's jars with their lustre surfaces, of the barbarian; and
the bowls of the Blacks and Indians. They know too the shining classic Italian ...

Page 82Eastern and Western thought alike regard man and his work as very inadequate
and variable affairs, and an oriental art lover eyes any very perfect piece of
technique with the suspicion that it contains little depth of meaning. In all the
greatest ...